16 Oct 2015

The apex consumer court on Thursday ordered testing of 13 samples of Maggi noodles to ascertain the claims made in the Centre's Rs 640 crore suit against Nestle India alleging unfair trade practices in relation to lead and MSG content in the product.

Earlier the company was given a chance to go through the samples collected by the government authorities and it cleared 13 out of 17. The bench headed by Justice V K Jain has sought reports of the test from the institute within four weeks.

The special CBI court's decision to set free former telecom secretary Shyamal Ghosh in a case related to the 2G spectrum allocation in 2002 under the NDA government took a political turn as Finance Minister Arun Jaitley charged Congress leader Kapil Sibal of interfering in the case.

Finance Minister Arun Jaitley

The special CBI court's decision to set free former telecom secretary Shyamal Ghosh in a case related to the 2G spectrum allocation in 2002 under the NDA government took a political turn as Finance Minister Arun Jaitley charged Congress leader Kapil Sibal of interfering in the case.

The finance minister also called for an inquiry to probe the role of the ministers in the UPA government that led to the pressing of charges in the case.

WASHINGTON: President Obama announced a significant shift to his Afghanistan exit plan Thursday: Instead of exiting, there will now be up to 5,500 U.S troops staying in Afghanistan through at least 2017.

The sudden departure from Obama's proposed strategy in 2014 comes after months of major attacks by insurgent groups across Afghanistan, where the Taliban have recently gained territory -- most notably temporarily holding the key northern hub of Kunduz, the first major city to fall to the insurgents since 2001.

The government, however, was free to transfer the officer concerned to any department in any of its offices to ensure the employee did not misuse contacts for obstructing the probe, the SC said. (File photo)